Monthly Archives: February 2012

That truism about the significance of the small gesture, that it counts, never felt truer or more noticeable. I see people handing out shopping bags of stuff to the homeless who sleep, among other places, on the steps of closed … Continue reading →

by Manos Kasapis   “It was a cold day in hell.” But I keep saying to myself that there have been colder, far worse severely daunting, frightening days…  Oh, so many words to describe this day! If I could pick … Continue reading →

Ο  άνθρωπος είναι “ζώον πολιτικόν” και ” ζώον λόγον  έχων” — Aristotle Whenever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. –Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition I am … Continue reading →